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WiseSenior Software Engineer II - Risk Control & Governance
Wise seeks a Senior Software Engineer II for its Risk & Control Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group in London. This on-site role focuses on…
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Wise seeks a Senior Software Engineer II for its Risk & Control Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group in London. This on-site role focuses on constructing the foundational data governance, assurance, and infrastructure needed to guarantee that all risk evaluations remain consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored at scale. The person in this position will collaborate directly with Product, Financial Crime, and Risk API groups. Primary duties include establishing…
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Wise seeks a Senior Software Engineer II for its Risk & Control Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group in London. This on-site role focuses on constructing the foundational data governance, assurance, and infrastructure needed to guarantee that all risk evaluations remain consistent, explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored at scale.
The person in this position will collaborate directly with Product, Financial Crime, and Risk API groups. Primary duties include establishing data trustworthiness, designing continuous assurance mechanisms, developing audit trail frameworks, and integrating governance features into core platform architecture.
This opportunity suits an experienced backend engineer who excels in distributed systems, data integrity, and cross-functional collaboration while operating independently through ambiguity.
Responsibilities
- Build data quality monitoring systems, data contracts, and lineage tracking for full traceability
- Design automated monitoring systems to validate control effectiveness, detect drift, and identify coverage gaps
- Develop audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to streamline regulatory reporting
- Collaborate with the Risk API team to integrate governance features into the core platform
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience creating high-throughput, data-intensive systems in any language
- Hands-on expertise with Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking
- Ability to design robust distributed systems and operate autonomously with ambiguity
Core Skills
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Candidates must have backend engineering experience with Kafka, SQL, NoSQL databases, and data engineering concepts like lineage tracking or data quality frameworks.
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